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Posted to log4cxx-user@logging.apache.org by Robert Middleton <os...@gmail.com> on 2015/04/22 04:31:12 UTC
Compiling on Windows
Hi,
I want to use log4cxx on a Windows-based project, and I'm wondering what
the easiest way to compile it for Windows is? I'm not very familiar with
compiling on Windows, so would the easiest way just be to use cygwin? Or
something else? I'm looking to compile the latest version from the trunk.
Also, it's a Qt-based project if that matters at all.
-Robert Middleton
RE: Compiling on Windows
Posted by "Alex Huang (Gorilla)" <al...@gorilla-technology.com>.
I have been using log4cxx 0.10.0 on Windows for a while now, and although the INSTALL file says to use Ant when compiling with MSVC, my build was done using the “configure.bat” method documented in site/building/vstudio.html. My notes show a few differences from the documentation so I’ll include them here:
The directory structure looks like
import
apr
apr-util
log4cxx
Each directory includes the download archive for the utility with the same name.
The notes assume starting in import/log4cxx.
1. install sed. My version is sed-4.2-1-setup.exe.
2. cd ../apr
3. decompress apr-1.3.2.tar.bz2
4. move apr-1.3.2 to ../log4cxx/apr
5. cd ../apr-util
6. decompress apr-util-1.3.2.tar.bz2
7. move apr-util-1.3.2 to ../log4cxx/apr-util
8. cd ../log4cxx
9. decompress log4cxx-0.10.0.tar.gz
10. cd apache-log4cxx-0.10.0
11. type configure.bat | find "" /V > configure_dos.bat
12. configure_dos.bat
13. type configure-aprutil.bat | find "" /V > configure-aprutil_dos.bat
14. configure-aprutil_dos.bat
15. open projects/log4cxx.sln solution. When asked to convert the solution to VC++<version>, click Yes to All.
16. Right click on Solution log4cxx and select Build solution.
If I remember correctly, there are some compile-time errors that have to be corrected due to recent versions of MSVC becoming more strict with includes. My build was made with MSVC++2012.
Best regards,
Alex Huang
From: Robert Middleton [mailto:osfan6313@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:58 AM
To: Log4CXX User
Subject: Re: Compiling on Windows
Update on the crash: I don't know what is going on with it, but I have narrowed down how to reproduce it. It turns out that the macros for logging( for example LOG4CXX_ERROR) create a log4cxx::helpers::MessageBuffer oss_; object. This object gets created and the message is logged using it. If the logging level is not valid, the MessageBuffer object is not created, and so the crash does not occur.
The strange thing is that the crash happens at the end of the method that the logging statement is in, it does *not* happen when the destructor of the MessageBuffer is called. Windows indicates that this is a BEX error(buffer overflow).
One solution that I saw was to make sure the library is compiled with /MD, I checked the output for log4cxx and it is compiled with that, and my program is compiled with -MD. Any ideas on what could be causing it?
-Robert Middleton
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Robert Middleton <os...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thorsten,
Thanks for the information. For future reference, here is what I needed to get it to build:
* Windows compiler(cl). I had the Windows 7 SDK installed, which gave me the command prompt with cl on PATH and the proper environment
* ant from: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
* ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/files/ant-contrib/
* cpptasks-1.0b5.jar from ant-contrib
* xercesImpl.jar from http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi#binary
I set my %PATH% to have the ant bin/ directory on it, and put the 3 jar files on %CLASSPATH%. I then ran ant -Dfind=false -Ddebug=no. This built the library; I added it to the .pro file with the following, after copying over the .dll and .lib file to the directory with the .pro:
win32:CONFIG(release, debug|release): LIBS += -L$$PWD/ -llog4cxx
I then copied over the log4cxx include directory and put in logging. Everything builds cleanly with MSVC, the problem is that as soon as something gets logged my program crashes - it appears to be happening within log4cxx, since I can cause it to happen by changing the level of a log statement.
-Robert Middleton
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Thorsten Schöning <ts...@am-soft.de>> wrote:
Guten Tag Robert Middleton,
am Mittwoch, 22. April 2015 um 04:31 schrieben Sie:
> I want to use log4cxx on a Windows-based project, and I'm wondering
> what the easiest way to compile it for Windows is?
I guess that heavily depends on your compiler and toolchain, not sure
if I read about QT on the list in the past, so you may be the first
one trying. I would try to start using ANT and see how it's going, my
experience using Cygwin is not the best if it comes to building
software, but I didn't ever try with log4cxx.
https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/building/ant.html
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Thorsten Schöning
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Re: Compiling on Windows
Posted by Robert Middleton <os...@gmail.com>.
Update on the crash: I don't know what is going on with it, but I have
narrowed down how to reproduce it. It turns out that the macros for
logging( for example LOG4CXX_ERROR) create a
log4cxx::helpers::MessageBuffer oss_; object. This object gets created and
the message is logged using it. If the logging level is not valid, the
MessageBuffer object is not created, and so the crash does not occur.
The strange thing is that the crash happens at the end of the method that
the logging statement is in, it does *not* happen when the destructor of
the MessageBuffer is called. Windows indicates that this is a BEX
error(buffer overflow).
One solution that I saw was to make sure the library is compiled with /MD,
I checked the output for log4cxx and it is compiled with that, and my
program is compiled with -MD. Any ideas on what could be causing it?
-Robert Middleton
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Robert Middleton <os...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thorsten,
>
> Thanks for the information. For future reference, here is what I needed
> to get it to build:
>
>
> - Windows compiler(cl). I had the Windows 7 SDK installed, which gave
> me the command prompt with cl on PATH and the proper environment
> - ant from: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
> - ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/files/ant-contrib/
> - cpptasks-1.0b5.jar from ant-contrib
> - xercesImpl.jar from http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi#binary
>
> I set my %PATH% to have the ant bin/ directory on it, and put the 3 jar
> files on %CLASSPATH%. I then ran ant -Dfind=false -Ddebug=no. This built
> the library; I added it to the .pro file with the following, after copying
> over the .dll and .lib file to the directory with the .pro:
>
> win32:CONFIG(release, debug|release): LIBS += -L$$PWD/ -llog4cxx
>
>
> I then copied over the log4cxx include directory and put in logging.
> Everything builds cleanly with MSVC, the problem is that as soon as
> something gets logged my program crashes - it appears to be happening
> within log4cxx, since I can cause it to happen by changing the level of a
> log statement.
>
> -Robert Middleton
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Thorsten Schöning <ts...@am-soft.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Guten Tag Robert Middleton,
>> am Mittwoch, 22. April 2015 um 04:31 schrieben Sie:
>>
>> > I want to use log4cxx on a Windows-based project, and I'm wondering
>> > what the easiest way to compile it for Windows is?
>>
>> I guess that heavily depends on your compiler and toolchain, not sure
>> if I read about QT on the list in the past, so you may be the first
>> one trying. I would try to start using ANT and see how it's going, my
>> experience using Cygwin is not the best if it comes to building
>> software, but I didn't ever try with log4cxx.
>>
>> https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/building/ant.html
>>
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>>
>> Thorsten Schöning
>>
>> --
>> Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: Thorsten.Schoening@AM-SoFT.de
>> AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/
>>
>> Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55
>> Fax...............05151- 9468- 88
>> Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04
>>
>> AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln
>> AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow
>>
>>
>
Re: Compiling on Windows
Posted by Robert Middleton <os...@gmail.com>.
Thorsten,
Thanks for the information. For future reference, here is what I needed to
get it to build:
- Windows compiler(cl). I had the Windows 7 SDK installed, which gave
me the command prompt with cl on PATH and the proper environment
- ant from: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
- ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/files/ant-contrib/
- cpptasks-1.0b5.jar from ant-contrib
- xercesImpl.jar from http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi#binary
I set my %PATH% to have the ant bin/ directory on it, and put the 3 jar
files on %CLASSPATH%. I then ran ant -Dfind=false -Ddebug=no. This built
the library; I added it to the .pro file with the following, after copying
over the .dll and .lib file to the directory with the .pro:
win32:CONFIG(release, debug|release): LIBS += -L$$PWD/ -llog4cxx
I then copied over the log4cxx include directory and put in logging.
Everything builds cleanly with MSVC, the problem is that as soon as
something gets logged my program crashes - it appears to be happening
within log4cxx, since I can cause it to happen by changing the level of a
log statement.
-Robert Middleton
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Thorsten Schöning <ts...@am-soft.de>
wrote:
> Guten Tag Robert Middleton,
> am Mittwoch, 22. April 2015 um 04:31 schrieben Sie:
>
> > I want to use log4cxx on a Windows-based project, and I'm wondering
> > what the easiest way to compile it for Windows is?
>
> I guess that heavily depends on your compiler and toolchain, not sure
> if I read about QT on the list in the past, so you may be the first
> one trying. I would try to start using ANT and see how it's going, my
> experience using Cygwin is not the best if it comes to building
> software, but I didn't ever try with log4cxx.
>
> https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/building/ant.html
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>
> Thorsten Schöning
>
> --
> Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: Thorsten.Schoening@AM-SoFT.de
> AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/
>
> Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55
> Fax...............05151- 9468- 88
> Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04
>
> AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln
> AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow
>
>
Re: Compiling on Windows
Posted by Thorsten Schöning <ts...@am-soft.de>.
Guten Tag Robert Middleton,
am Mittwoch, 22. April 2015 um 04:31 schrieben Sie:
> I want to use log4cxx on a Windows-based project, and I'm wondering
> what the easiest way to compile it for Windows is?
I guess that heavily depends on your compiler and toolchain, not sure
if I read about QT on the list in the past, so you may be the first
one trying. I would try to start using ANT and see how it's going, my
experience using Cygwin is not the best if it comes to building
software, but I didn't ever try with log4cxx.
https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/building/ant.html
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Thorsten Schöning
--
Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: Thorsten.Schoening@AM-SoFT.de
AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/
Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55
Fax...............05151- 9468- 88
Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04
AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln
AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow